Hi, Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I got an ASUS EeePC 1005PE a few days ago and am trying to install >> Debian testing on it. > <snip> >> 2. The Ethernet card disappeared completely. It did no longer show up >> in the output from lspci, nor was it accessible in Windows. This >> problem persisted over shutdowns as well. Removing the battery and >> disconnecting the power supply luckily made the card show up again. >> >> A patch was available for this issue on a different EeePC model [3]. >> This one was not so easy to backport, so I just changed it to disable >> hot-plug always (patch attached). This solved this issue for me: the >> Ethernet card does no longer disappear. >> >> [3] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14570 > > My suggestion for this problem would be to contact the eeepc-laptop > maintainer :-). > > I guess we're too late to add a blacklist entry for 2.6.33, but we > should be able to get a fix into 2.6.33.1. > > Please confirm that the wireless toggle key (possibly fn+f2) works > correctly for you after disabling hotplug. That is, it doesn't break > if you disable the wireless and enable it again (and you don't see > anything too scary in the kernel log). After finally managing to set up hostapd, I can confirm that this works. I disabled the wireless interface using [Fn]+[F2], then enabled it again. After restarting hostapd, I was able to connect to use the wireless network again. The kernel log contains nothing scary (only a boring "wlan0: no IPv6 routers present"). Regards, Ansgar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
